Richard Stockton Field

Richard Stockton Field (31 December 1803-25 May 1870) was a US Senator from New Jersey (R) from 21 November 1862 to 14 January 1863, succeeding John Renshaw Thomson and preceding James Walter Wall.

Biography
Richard Stockton Field was born in Burlington County, New Jersey in 1803, and he moved to Princeton in 1810 and became a lawyer in Salem in 1825. He served as a state legislator before serving as the state attorney general from 1838 to 1841, and he was a professor at Princeton Law School from 1847 to 1855. He went on to serve as a US Senator from 1862 to 1863 and as a district court judge from 1863 to 1870, and he resigned that year, dying a month later.